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This is one of those times when I almost hesitate to even publish this because people will officially know I wasted hours of my life browsing web pages to obtain these results. Then again, we all waste hours of our lives browsing web pages – the only difference is we don’t record our findings in a spreadsheet.

I hope some people will find this interesting. Some people might consider it a challenge. Other people may find it discouraging, disappointing, a waste of time, an over-simplification, or even offensive. Oh well, at least now I have my own scoring system for anybody who wants to put out a SVG plugin or support for SVG (Microsoft, care to give it a whirl?).

I am thinking about a chart of how CSS can be used as well, i.e. in simple img-tags, in HTML5 (as in XHTML but sent as text/html), in CSS backgrounds, as favicons, as filters and clip-paths for HTML content. Has anyone heard of such tests, or do I need to implement my own?

While these are not quite the same thing (not comprehensive, full-coverage testing but more testing of edge cases to encourage operability), it might be something you are interested in. They would also include testing of inclusiong of SVG via CSS as you suggest.

@Helder – thanks. I will make sure the raw results table is updated with all the info (historical, obscure, otherwise) on the next update. But I’m still going to keep the PNG as tight as possible. Should I remove Firefox 3? Chrome 1? Is there a point to adding Chrome 3?

@Jan: I haven’t tested amplesdk, since I’d have to modify each test myself to load the JS and render the SVG. This is a good idea though and I’ll contact Sergey to see if he is interested in doing this.

ALSO I SUGEST AN ON LINE PETTITION WITH MAIL CONFIRMATION TO VALIDADE THE VOTES (AND PREVENT DUPLICATED VOTES), ASKING MICROSOFT TO MAKE A PATCH TO IE 8 TO SUPPORT SVG 1.1 FULL. THE RESULT OF THIS PETTION CAN BE SEND ALSO TO UE TO PRESSURE MS IN EUROPE TOO.

I will make sure the raw results table is updated with all the info (historical, obscure, otherwise) on the next update.

Great, thanks. 🙂

But I’m still going to keep the PNG as tight as possible. Should I remove Firefox 3? Chrome 1? Is there a point to adding Chrome 3?

I noticed you already dumped old versions in the image and I guess this is the best way of keeping things clean: for each implementation, list the current release and the latest beta/nightly seems very reasonable. 😉

Couple of comments:

The chart was updated in 2010-02-13 but there was no notification in the blog (reason why I missed it). After you have announced previous updates in the main page it was cool to keep doing it; 😉
There’s no (textual) information stating that following the image link leads to the complete table with details and dropped versions. I guess it would be valuable to mention it. 🙂

@Iutze and @Galileo: No, Opera has not yet released 10.50 final for my platform (OSX). I think they focused on getting the Win version done in time for the Euro browser ballot, but did unfortunately have not released Linux/OSX yet 🙁

To those who keep asking about Opera 10.5x: they have not even released their browser for my platform (OSX) and when they do I anticipate zero change from their 10.50 alpha score already on the chart.

This chart is all about interoperability. These days Opera is the least interesting score because they already score so high and no browser is close to unseating them. Can you please just be happy with that and stop asking?

oh dear, this looks terrible. I had hopes about SVG but 25% in IE9?
The only browser that looks decent is Opera.
Info on the test suite and what aspects each browser failed would be welcome (cf QuirksMode).